Internet Marketing

Create and sell database to earn money on the net. I have some ways to earn extra money on the internet. Create a database and sell it. One of the easiest ways to earn extra money online is selling a database on the net.

If you have collections of valuable data like lyrics, recipes, articles, hotel information, etc., then why not convert them into cash? The good thing in selling database on the net is that you can sell a copy of your data collection to more than one buyer without recreating the said database. Thanks to information technology.
I started this business 6 months ago, as a supplemental income, then later I found out that I am earning bigger than what I am expecting. Since then, if I am free, I collect information and create database as past time, this past time brings me some dollar to pay my bills and some for my recreation.

Would you imagine, my first database I created 6 months ago (recipe database) still bringing me money today. Now, I am making not less than $600 a month selling databases, this amount is a nice additional income for my other internet business.
I started earning from selling database. I surf the net and search a site dedicated in buying and selling websites, but I didn’t find one. I decided to create a forum where database seller and buyer can go for their business - buy and sell database. The forum is new, but slowly attracting webmasters who are looking database-for-sale for their new websites or existing websites. You can start selling your database at http://forums.digitalpoint.com or you can try at forum.digitalpoint.com, a reputable and very successful webmaster forum.

Filed under: Online Business by Craig

I am selling database to earn extra money and also buy database for my newly created site. I may resell this site and its database depending on the choice of the buyer.

I have here some points to remember for buying database.

1. Ask for the database structure

The first thing you should ask to the seller; show it to you the structure of the database. Base on the structure, you could decide if it does fit for your needs or not.

2. Total records and size of the database

The total record helps you to weight whether the price given to you by the seller is fair and commensurate enough. The size of the database is important specially if you’re using not that big disk space in your server. There are databases for sale more than 100MB which really big and eats lot of space in your hosting package.

3. Sample output
I usually ask the seller a sample output of his/her d
atabase before buying it, to ensure that the data is clean. I ask the seller to show me at least 100 records in html format.

4. How many copies have been sold?
If you’re a serious web developer, I am sure you are aware about duplicate content issues, which search engines penalized site with duplicate contents. If the database is fresh and no one using it, you can offer the seller to buy exclusive rights for the database. But of course, even though the database have been sold many times you can still buy it as a startup content of your site, then later on add new content.

5. How much it costs?

Depending on the database you are buying, if you’re buying recipe, lyrics, articles, and restaurant list of databases, these are not expensive, but it depends on the total records. A 160,000 lyrics database is ranging from $70 to $120 only. But if you’re buying a database exclusively, the cost raised up to 10 times the price of the database.

6. Does the content of the database copyrighted?

Before you buy a database, be sure to ask the seller about the copyright issue of the database you are buying. Sometimes people buy databases then resell it to other buyer without asking the permission of the original seller. This will be a big issue when the original seller caught you using his database.

7. Can you resell the said database in the future?

It is a good way to earn some extra dollar later, if you decided to sell the database you bought. So before paying the database, you must ask the seller if you can resell the said database in the future, to avoid copyright issues.

8. Can you use the said database in more than 1 site that you own?

Some seller doesn’t want their database to be used in more than 1 site. If the seller doesn’t let you use the said database in more than 1 site and for future purposes, then better not buy the said database unless you only intend to use it once.

9. Payment type

To secure your self from scam, you should only pay via paypal, stormpay, or xoom.com. The first two are more secure because you can refund your money if you don’t get the product.

10. Research before paying

Before sending your payment, you must research first about the seller reputation, if you’re buying from forums, you can ask members about the person you’re about to deal with.
You can buy database at http://forum.digitalpoint.com, http://namepros.com, and other webmaster related forums.

Filed under: Content by Craig

One of the hardest part of creating site or even blog is sometimes don’t know what to write on it. Sometimes we copy other site content which is not good and unethical as other says and I agree with that.

But with the introduction of rss feed , site owners authorized other people to republish some part of their articles or their complete articles to other’s site via rss readers. This new technology make our life easier because now we are free to republish other site content (part of it) legally. You only need to look for sites that provides rss feed and create your own rss feed reader or get it free from the net and all set.

Here is the good news to all wordpress blogger user, many of us don’t know that there is an existing wordpress hack/plugins out there for as early as 2005 that you can use to automatically post rss feed into your wordpress blog for free. And you can set source for each category of your blog as many as you want. The author of this plugins call it feedpress. You can get a copy of this plugin at http://projects.radgeek.com/feedwordpress there are 2 version available already the earliear version that works only in wordpress 1.5 and earlier and the second version which works in wordpress 2.0

Filed under: Content by Craig

For those who are trying to setup a wildcard DNS here is a simple instruction how to do this. Please take note this instruction is for cpanel user only.

Here you go..

1. Login to your WHM
2. Goto Edit DNS
3. Select the site that you want to create a wildcard dns
4. Add the following entry in your zone field *.domain.com *.domain.com. 14400 IN A xx.xxx.xxx.xxx (replace with your IP)
5. Save it…

After that login to your SSH command window and edit this file .httpd.conf

look for the domain something like this

Servername domain.com
Serveralias domain.com

Edit that to have *.domain.com at serveralias instead of domain.com and peform an httpd server restart (Just apache restart not entire server).

Create auto subdomain/Fake sub domain

Now that you have set your wild card dns, the domain is ready to accept instruction for sub domain with out creating an actual subdomain…. for example ed.tips1001.com, 10001.tips1001.com and so on. You only need to specify what to display. And believe me you can even display the content of other site in your subdomains :). To accomplish this be sure that your server support modrewrite.

Here is a simple mod rewrite that you can insert in your .htaccess file to complete the task.

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^\.]+)\.([0-9]+)\.domain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^$ /index.php [L,NC]

another sample:
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([0-9]+)\.domain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /script.php?id=%1&title=$1 [L]

the second sample will output something like this
http://21.domain.com/title.

Note the domain\.com in the mod can be change to another domain which is not your original domain example yahoo.com , google.com , msn.com and so on.

To get more help regarding mod rewriting wild card and fake subdomains visit this forum http://forum.modrewrite.com/ people there are very supportive.

Filed under: Hosting by Craig

My wife left me–temporarily. She’s going to China for two weeks, along with my mother and my mother-in-law. It sounds like the beginning of a bad joke, doesn’t it? But it’s true. And my forlorn, lonely, bereftness-osity means: it’s time for webmaster questions again!

Same guidelines apply as last time:

Ask whatever you want. I’ll tackle a few of the questions that are general. Please make sure you read the most recent comment guidelines so you know to avoid “what’s up with my specific site?” or other questions that won’t apply to most people.

Comments that ignore the comment guidelines will be pruned. I’ll add a couple more requests. First, please don’t ask me about legal stuff (”Dammit Jim, I’m an engineer, not a lawyer!”). And once someone has asked, “Dude, what’s up with topic X?” please don’t repeat the question–once is enough. I’ll let questions stream in today and tackle some of them this weekend.

Filed under: Google, Search Engines by Matt Cutts

We launched a new Yahoo! Search Crawler, Yahoo! Slurp earlier this week. In addition to crawling the Internet faster, our new crawler is more efficient at visiting websites. As a result, site owners will notice as much as a 25% reduction in the number of requests and bandwidth consumed by the crawler.

While transitioning to the new crawler over the past few weeks, we had been running both crawlers in tandem. In some cases, this increased the frequency of Yahoo Search requests to websites. Now, with the new crawler in full production, we have turned off the old crawler and site owners should see a much lower crawl load without a loss in content coverage.

With this change of behavior in the crawler, you may see some shuffling of the pages that are included in the index and some changes in ranking as well.

Let us know what you observe through our feedback form, or if you have any technical issues with Slurp please contact support.

Thank you to everyone who helped us with this update!

David Simpson
Yahoo! Slurp Team

Priyank Garg
Yahoo! Search

Filed under: Search Engines, Yahoo by search-blog-admin@yahoo-inc.com

Filed under: Google, Search Engines by Alden DeSoto

Okay, in a previous post I told a story about Google’s market share in early days, and mentioned that you have to think about the limitations of any measuring methodology. I briefly touched on sampling bias too. Let’s look consider sampling bias in a different arena: Alexa.

One possible source of skewing in Alexa data is a bias toward webmaster-y sites. Alexa shows how popular web sites are, so it’s natural that webmasters install the Alexa toolbar. Some do it just so that their normal day-to-day visits around the web (including their own site) are added to Alexa’s stats. The net effect is that webmaster-related sites are going to look more important to Alexa. Let’s take a look at a graph comparing mattcutts.com and ask.com:

For now, let’s concentrate on the green ellipse. This is a graph of reach, which is defined as “out of one million internet users, how many of them went to mattcutts.com vs. Ask each day.” If you look at the green ellipse, it shows that I had a spike in May and Ask had a dip in June. I believe Alexa was reporting that for at least a good day for me and a bad day for Ask, I was reaching more internet users as a percentage than Ask. (Alexa folks, please correct me if I’m mis-speaking or drawing the wrong conclusion.) And I believe that I can safely say that’s not remotely close to true. I have nowhere near the reach that Ask has.

I’m clearly getting some boost from webmaster bias because so many SEOs read my blog. Am I getting a boost from anything else? Well, look at the purple ellipse in the graph above. I got a really huge spike in reach around April 20th. Why? It’s not like I said anything especially insightful that week. I think the answer is that I’m getting a bit of geek boost too.

Others have noticed this impressive jump in late April, and that some non-geek sites remained unaffected. What on earth could account for this huge (but welcome) spike in my reach graph?

Jason Striegel proposed a possible explanation: maybe Digg did it. He suggests that a Digg story about Digg overtaking Slashdot in traffic caused a bunch of Diggers to install the Alexa toolbar–enough to skew Alexa’s stats. Now the Digg story was popular about a month before the Alexa spike–maybe there’s a near-one-month wait on accepting data from new Alexa toolbar installs? It’s hard to say, but that late-April spike is definitely interesting. I haven’t seen too many other theories on that boost for geeky sites. Anyone got other ideas?

Just to be clear: Alexa is wonderful in many ways, and I love Alexa. They provide easy access to nice usage data. You just have to keep in mind possible limitations, e.g. skewing due to sampling bias. And to be fair, I grabbed this Alexa graph a couple weeks ago: I went back today and the two “Matt vs. Ask” spikes don’t cross now. Maybe Alexa did some renormalization. That does raise the issue that any metric is a bit of a black box: you need to know the raw data used compute a metric, and exactly how that metric is computed. If you don’t know that, then there are bounds to how confident you can be in a metric.

So how do you decide how much to trust a metric? One way is to find another similar metric and compare the two. For example, here’s a graph comparing reach for mattcutts.com to zawodny.com:

Ha ha! Looks like I’m trouncing him, eh? Time to do a little Google Dance? Not so fast. Let’s look at a completely different metric which should be comparable: Bloglines subscribers. My RSS feed lists 1,136 subscribers, while Jeremy lists 5,096 subscribers. So by that metric, Jeremy is destroying me. And I suspect that Bloglines subscriptions are more accurate in this case.

Now, are Bloglines subscriptions perfectly accurate? Of course not. People who talk a lot about RSS and APIs probably are more likely to have RSS subscribers, for example. Also, different feed readers will have different audiences and demographics. And I noticed that over my six-week vacation that my Bloglines subscribers numbers didn’t budge. It’s probably true that even when web surfers visit a site less often, RSS subscriber numbers would remain nearly constant, because it’s more trouble to unsubscribe in most feed readers. So drops in popularity are probably more visible from web surfers than from RSS subscribers.

What are the takeaway points so far? You should think about the limitations in any methodology: bear in mind that sampling bias can under (or over!) represent a site, for example. To be completely sure in a metric, you need to know the raw incoming data and how a metric operates on that data to produce a number. And if you want to be more confident, look for similar metrics that should roughly agree. If different metrics agree, that’s a good sign. If they disagree, you should probably be cautious.

Filed under: Google, Search Engines by Matt Cutts

As Searchblog readers may remember, we launched a tool called Site Explorer last year that you can use to see what pages from a site are indexed in the Yahoo! Search engine. You can also use Site Explorer to see page links.

The Site Explorer interface is based on the search results page experience and returns lists of pages that are indexed, and inlinks to your site, as you can see for the Searchblog.

But the Yahoo! Korea team took the basic functionality and gave it an entirely new look � as you can see in the Webzari for the Searchblog. Sorry I can�t translate it for you. Here�s one screenshot that explains partly what the tool is showing:

If you mouse over the planets in the Webzari, it gives you more information about the links and clicking on the planets returns the corresponding blog entry or other text. Try clicking around on it � even though you might not understand Korean, you�ll get the gist of things.

You can even save Webzari searches in My Hub, the Korean version of My Web.

Give Webzari a spin and leave us a comment to let us know what you think!

Arah Cho & Priyank Garg
Yahoo! Search

Filed under: Search Engines, Yahoo by search-blog-admin@yahoo-inc.com

How time flies…

I just realized that it’s been a while since I’ve made an appearance here. I’ve been spending more of my time on the Yahoo! Developer Network where a lot has been going on behind the scenes.

The developer network started roughly a year and a half ago with some search related web services and a BSD Licensed Software Development Kit (SDK). It quickly grew to encompass more and more of Yahoo! services and continues to do so.

Some of that behind the scenes work was an effort to update the SDK with newer libraries as well adding support for entirely new languages: Lua, for example. All told, the package now includes:

• C#
• Flash (ActionScript)
• Java
• JavaScript
• Lua
• Perl
• PHP
• Python
• Ruby
• VB.NET
• Widgets (JavaScript + XML)

If you’d like to track what’s going with our APIs and services (search and more), check out the Yahoo! Developer Network and our blog.

Jeremy Zawodny
Yahoo! Developer Network

Filed under: Search Engines, Yahoo by search-blog-admin@yahoo-inc.com